Is the above like your journey to school?

Noticeboard

On Thursday this week we will be welcoming our guest author, Rachel McCoubrie, in for a visit to each of our classes. You should have also received further information about this visit before the break and again on last week’s blog. You have until the end of Monday 8th November to return the form  and any money. Here is the link again to the form.
We are really looking forward to our time with her.

Poppy Appeal
Poppies will be on sale on sale in school on Wednesday 10th and Thursday 11th November. If you would like your child to purchase a poppy or Poppy Appeal band, please send them in with a donation of at least £1 to give to their class teacher on those days.

• Please make sure all PE kits are back in school if they were taken home before the holidays.
• Parents evenings are being held via video calls on this Tuesday and Thursday evenings after school.
• You will find below a grid showing the sessions to be taught each week. They do not exactly follow days as each class has different sessions due to support and PE times being different but it allows you to see the week as a snapshot of sessions. 
• We will always aim to get outside, whatever the weather, as much as possible so children will really need a waterproof coat each day.

A link to plans and resources if you are needing to self-isolate can be accessed HERE.
Phonics for the week be accessed here… oy     ir    ue (glue)     ue (cue)

To watch the whole-school assembly from Mrs Fricker click here

Daily Well Being Activities

Monday – Connect – Tell someone something different about them that you like.
Tuesday – Take Notice- watch an autumn story  After the storm
Wednesday – Be Active – Physical challenge – eg How many star jumps can you do in 10 seconds?
Thursday – Keep Learning – Choose someone different to play with today and tell us about it later
Friday – Give – Create a class thankfulness tree to add to (can be twigs in a jar)

English

Phonics: New Phase Teaching – Phase 5
Information for Sounds and Words Books:

oy (toy)    ir (stir)     ue (glue)    ue  (cue)

CEW to read and spell: people   little
Other words to read and spell: boy   girl   blue  first  third
Sounds and Keyword books- children will write in these sounds and keywords – Differentiated where necessary. Please use the books for the children to practice in. Guidance is in the front of your child’s book.

Vocabulary: adjective, noun, phoneme, sounds, blend, letter name, word, sentence, full stop, question mark
Writing:
– Journey to school –  (2 sessions) Think about 4 of your senses and what they see, feel, hear and smell on your way to school. Make a list including adjectives and nouns. Following on from this, use your words collected on your sheet to create sentences about your journey,
-As a class, think of questions to ask our visitor this week about her book and why she became an author. Teacher to scribe.
–Follow- up work from the author: Write about your favourite part of the story and what it was like to meet the author. Draw your own monster and cake.
Handwriting: Correct formation of the graphemes and CEW for spelling listed above through the use of our 4 formation families. Complete a dictated sentence: Will their first clue annoy the people? 

Reading:
Read as part of a group. Look at front cover details and explore making predictions, using phonetic knowledge to decode unknown words and to extend vocabulary. Read aloud and look at increasing fluency and use discussion as a group to discuss comprehension.
In reading groups, continue to continue on phonic and CEW recognition gaps identified in assessments from Term 1. 
Most children moving into the first set of Phase 5 phonics decodable books.
Whole Class – Planned story sessions each day.

Maths

Mental/ oral warm-ups:

Counting forwards/backwards from any number within 20 
Recall of facts within 10 (random generator)
Snappy maths – fast recall of addition within 10
Number bonds to 10
Partitioning teen numbers

Learning Objectives: 

Count to twenty, forwards and backwards, beginning with 0 or 1, from any given number. 
Count, read and write numbers to 20 in numerals and words.
Given a number, identify one more or one less.
Identify and represent numbers using objects and pictorial representations including the number line, and use the language of: equal to, more than, less than (fewer), most, least.

Wider Curriculum

PE- SHINE Outside Session – Team Games
Jasmine PE– Social: I can work sensibly with others taking turns and sharing. I can help, praise and encourage others in their learning
Skills: Jumping and landing

Science – What is Weather? Start with the typical weather in each season. Look at elicitation and seasonal change,

R+WV (Formally known as RE) –  Learning about the birth of Muhammad and why he is so important to those of Muslim faith. Experience writing his name in Arabic and going from right to left across the page.

Music- To listen to and describe a piece of music using musical vocabulary.
To sing in time and in tune following a melody as it moves up and down in pitch.
Listen to the music with no visuals and draw what they imagine as they listen
Learn about pitch through Up Up Up.

PSHE – ‘The same as…’ Children explore, working with partners, what is the same about us?

Geography Children to draw their route to school, building on our work from last term. Label maps. Ext. Use a key. Thank you to the children who responded to last weeks blog and brought in some maps to share that they have mapped out at home.

Class 4 Thomas

Class 5 Earnest

Class 6 Freya (And happy birthday too!)